This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“As the world around us surges into a frenzied and festive December, let's take a step away from the party and ask… — Kerry van der Vinne Copy Share Image
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“The most hideous scene of life and the world is, the lamentation of a hungry child.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have… — Glenn Pemberton Copy Share Image
Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single,… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
